SYRACUSE, N.Y. — If you’re looking to travel to Charleston, South Carolina or Las Vegas, Nevada, Syracuse Hancock International Airport says it will have flights to those cities in early June. Breeze Airways — a low-cost air carrier headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah — will begin air service at the Syracuse airport in a […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — If you’re looking to travel to Charleston, South Carolina or Las Vegas, Nevada, Syracuse Hancock International Airport says it will have flights to those cities in early June.
Breeze Airways — a low-cost air carrier headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah — will begin air service at the Syracuse airport in a few months.
It represents the first time that Breeze has offered flights from an airport in upstate New York.
The airline will launch twice-weekly, nonstop flights, year-round, to Charleston, South Carolina and Las Vegas, Nevada starting June 10, the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority (SRAA) announced on March 8. The announcement boosts the number of nonstop destinations available to travelers at the Syracuse airport to 29, SRAA added.
“I’m personally so excited to be announcing new service from Syracuse,” David Neeleman, founder and CEO of Breeze Airways, said. “It just seems like yesterday we were launching JetBlue here with Senator Schumer. I know both Las Vegas and Charleston will be huge hits with travelers from the Syracuse area. Come fly us and we’ll keep adding more flights and more cities.”
Neeleman also co-founded JetBlue Airways, which also offers flights from Syracuse, along with three additional air carriers, per the Breeze Airways website.
The addition of Breeze to the Syracuse market is one more sign of the growth of demand here and how the economy is certainly recovering and doing well in so many respects, Kevin Schwab, senior aviation industry advisor at CenterState CEO, tells CNYBJ.
“[The] announcement with Breeze gives us now the longest nonstop flight we’ve ever had from this market to Las Vegas,” says Schwab.
It also provides nonstop service to Charleston, South Carolina, an area he described as a “growing hot spot.”
Breeze Airways will serve both the Charleston and Las Vegas routes with the new Airbus A220 aircraft. The flights will have 120 to 140 seats available, depending on the configuration of the aircraft, per an SRAA release.
“We are beyond excited to welcome Breeze Airways as they launch their first ever regularly scheduled service here in Syracuse,” Jason Terreri, executive director of SRAA, said. “Nonstop service from Syracuse to Charleston connects our travelers to one of the top vacation destinations in the country, while nonstop service from Syracuse to Las Vegas expands our destination map the farthest west it has gone in decades.”
Schwab says he sees plenty of opportunity for Breeze Airways in Syracuse.
“I particularly think an airline like Breeze with nonstop service, point to point, to key growth markets will do well in Syracuse because they’re able to evaluate the market and jump into the routes that are unserved and really have a lot of pent up demand,” he says.